Sunday, May 29, 2011

Someone Saved My Life Tonight/Iggy, Elton and the Gorilla Suit/"I Simply Can't Understand Why Iggy Isn't a Huge Star"

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Some of the more interesting rock reads are those where there is on the surface an incongruity between the writer and the subject material. ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ask Henry Rollins "What's New for '82?"/Real Bands and Fake Bands/"People Are Going to Get Smarter"/"No More Robot Skaters"

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From "lifestyle" magazine Action Now, January 1982. Same issue which features a review of "Damaged" and calls it "...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Juncosa!

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Found this one in the barn and figured it would look pretty great on a t-shirt. Ok, I'll admit it. I saw SWA countless times during th...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Claude Bessy Sings the Beatles

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As a follow-up to the recent post on Claude Bessy, some additional pieces for Bessyologists are floating around the web. The first Bessy cli...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

"Monsters of Metal"/"Sincere Apologies to All of the Women in the World"/Black Flag and the Crüe/"Rock 'half measures'"

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Do Kim Salmon, Scott Miller and Ginn/Rollins/Dukowski know that they get a special dedication in one of the first tomes solely dedicated to ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Shaun Cassidy, Claude Bessy and Philip K. Dick/Fly Jefferson Airplane/Easy on Paul Williams

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A couple of random facts about the late, great Claude Bessy. Claude Bessy's first acid trip was seeing the Jefferson Airplane in 1967 (...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Great 1973 Sonics Revival/"The Closest Thing to Heavy Metal Until the Advent of the Zep and MC5"/Morock ("Moronic Rock")

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Of the many places that could claim the mantle of pre-punk or proto-punk headquarters (for even a few minutes), let me introduce the San Fer...